$0 GP visit with bulk billing restored. Obesity fixed at source — education, not pills. 10 Green Zone community health pilots. Healing Centres in every corridor town. Mental health properly funded. Aged care woven into community, not warehoused.
Bulk billing has collapsed — $80 gap fees per GP visit in regional Australia. Obesity is the number-one driver of chronic disease: diabetes, cardiovascular disease, cancer, depression. We treat the consequences. Nobody fixes the root cause. The food system is engineered to cause it.
Suicide kills more Australian men under 45 than anything else — three times the female rate. The mental health system is overwhelmed, underfunded, and medicating instead of healing. Regional Australia has no GPs, no bulk billing, and no prevention. Hospital emergency departments absorb what the system fails to prevent.
The aged care royal commission exposed a broken system. The PBS is threatened by trade agreements, medicines unlisted for years. No integrated community health hubs — services scattered across five agencies, five buildings. The person who needs help most cannot navigate the maze.
Medicare rebates restored to 95% of AMA fee in regional and rural Australia, 85% metro. Bulk billing made financially viable — not charity by the GP. Set annually by an independent body of clinicians. $0 to see a doctor in regional NSW, Broken Hill, Bourke, Wilcannia. Day one.
Education as Priority One. Practical nutrition and health literacy taught in every school from Year 1. Junk food advertising to children banned across all platforms. Government advertising budget inverted — proactive health education replaces reactive crisis messaging. Food additives reviewed — chemicals banned in the EU/UK/US/Canada suspended in Australia immediately.
10 sessions of psychological therapy per year, zero gap through Medicare. 200 additional public psychiatry positions nationally in the first term. Community mental health centres in every Green Zone. Mindfulness and mental health literacy core curriculum in every school. Purpose, connection, and community treated as mental health policy — because they are.
Ten community health and healing centres in the first term — one per state and territory. Integrated primary care, mental health, allied health, and community programs in a single location. Not a clinic. Not a government office. A place people go for sport, food, conversation, and care. Rolled out nationally in subsequent terms.
Healing Centres built into every SBC corridor town. Health is not just hospital treatment — it is the conditions of daily life. The corridor town design integrates health, food, exercise, and community as a single system. Australia builds towns that produce health, instead of relying on hospitals to repair damage done elsewhere.
Aged care woven into communities, not warehoused at distance. Corridor towns integrate seniors housing into the everyday life of the town. Multi-generational design. Workforce wages lifted. Royal Commission recommendations fully implemented. The dignity of the older Australian is the measure of the country.
The PBS is preserved as a sovereign national asset and extended. Dental care brought into Medicare. Trade agreements never permitted to threaten PBS pricing power. Generic substitution accelerated. New medicines listed within statutory timelines. The PBS is one of the most cost-effective health systems in the world. We defend it.
The health system rebuilt around prevention, not just treatment. Schools, food regulation, urban design, mental health, and community programs all funded as health policy — because they produce more health than hospitals do. Australia stops treating consequences and starts removing causes.
| Current — The Failure | MMP — The Fix |
|---|---|
| Bulk billing collapsed. $80 gap fees per GP visit in regional Australia. | Medicare rebates restored. 95% AMA fee regional. $0 GP visit. |
| Obesity is #1 driver of chronic disease. Treated downstream with pills. | Education from Year 1. Junk food advertising to children banned. Food additives reviewed. |
| Mental health: 10-session cap arbitrary. Waiting lists for psychiatry. | 10 free sessions zero gap. 200 new public psychiatry positions Year 1. |
| Health services scattered. Five agencies, five buildings. | 10 Green Zone community health pilots. Healing Centres in every corridor town. |
| Aged care: warehoused, understaffed, royal commission ignored. | Woven into corridor towns. Multi-generational design. Wages lifted. |
| PBS threatened by trade agreements. Medicines unlisted for years. | PBS preserved and extended. Dental brought into Medicare. Statutory listing timelines. |
| Health spending is reactive — hospitals absorbing preventable disease. | Health spending is preventive — schools, food, urban design funded as health policy. |
No memos pinned to this policy yet. When an MMP memo on this topic is published, it will appear here with a short summary. The full memo index is at moralmajority.com.au/memos.html.